Children diagnosed with cancer are unique in many ways. They often face risks from cancer treatments that adults do not, including but not limited to, developmental delays, hormone deficiencies, and effects on bone growth. Because of treatment advances including radiation, pediatric cancer survival rates have increased significantly over several decades from 10% to nearly 90% today. Unfortunately, increased survival rates have resulted in many children experiencing significant long-term side effects including secondary cancers in healthy tissues that received unnecessary radiation during their treatment. Proton therapy can limit and reduce radiation doses to healthy tissues and organs while delivering curative doses to the cancer. This results in lowering children’s risk of experiencing harmful long-term side effects.
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